Page 83 of Dawn Caravan
“Aren’t these buses cool?” She grinned, and her adorable fangs gleamed in the low lamplight. “We need to get one of them in America.”
Ben slammed the door shut and marched over to her. “This is what you were hiding?”
“The bus?”
“No!” He kept his voice low. “This thing with Radu. Did you know he was going to kidnap me? Is this what you weren’t telling me in Hungary?”
“Hmmm.” She stayed hanging upside down. “Sort of.”
“What kind of answer is that?”
“The only one I’m going to give you right now.”
Ben grabbed Tenzin’s cheeks and kissed her hard, giving in to the instinct that had been scraping at him since he’d seen her at the club in Bucharest. He’d thought she was gone, and now she was back.
He wanted her. Fuck, he wanted her so much. Every cell in his body was hungry for the taste of her. He sucked her tongue into his mouth, nicking the end so her blood flooded his mouth and his senses.
She groaned and reached for his neck, dragging him closer.
Ben slid his hands down her neck and across her shoulders until he cupped her small breasts in his hands and squeezed. He wanted to pull her shirt up and feel her skin. He needed the contact. He ran a hand down to her waist and slid his fingers beneath her leggings, tracing the rise of her pelvis and the smooth skin of her hip.
The sound she made in her throat was halfway between a purr and a snarl.
He dragged his hands up her body again and broke their kiss, keeping both his hands on her cheeks. Her mouth was open and her lips were red. A drop of her blood lingered at the corner of her mouth, and he licked out and captured it.
The smell of her desire nearly buckled his knees. “You drive me absolutely fucking crazy.”
“I missed you too.” She brushed her thumb over his lower lip. “Did Radu tell you I was here? Is that why you came with him? He couldn’t take you if you didn’t want to be taken.”
“I came for the job. I came because of the goblet that René probably stole.”
“Goblet?” She rolled over, and her hair fell in her eyes. She puffed her breath up and the hair tucked itself behind her ear.
“Don’t pretend like you don’t know.”
“I didn’t know they were missing one of the goblets.” Her eyes gleamed. “Which one? Is it Kezia’s or Radu’s? It wouldn’t be Vano’s; he wouldn’t ask for help.”
“Was it you?”
She shook her head. “What kind of question is that to ask someone you just kissed? Quite well, I will add. That was nice.”
“Because it’s you, it’s necessary.”
“The kiss?”
“Thequestion, Tenzin.”
She ran a finger along his bottom lip. “You’re so stern right now. Is this because René is here? It’s not René this time.”
“You’re pissing me off.”
She floated down from the hanging bed and planted her feet in front of him. “You don’t really think I stole this.”
“If you did, just give it to me and I’ll get it back to Radu. You can take off and we’ll never speak of it again.”
“I can’t take off. I’ve agreed to be here for three weeks. You can’t leave the Dawn Caravan before your stay is over, not if you ever want to come back. Those are the rules, Benjamin. Didn’t they tell you?”
“You’re here for three weeks?”
